how do they make feminized seeds?

[aaronbites]

i was curious on how they make feminized seeds r do they know how to pick out the female seeds

[fatbob166]

Here is a link to an article from a few years ago about feminized seeds.....

http://cannabisculture.com/articles/1332.html

Hopefully this will clear things up for you.......

[smokingjoe68]

awesome fatbob. thx

[jim the pot smo]

interesting article mate

[toppotgrower]

feminized seeds come from a hermyed plant. i had 2 of my ice plants hermy i ended up wiff tones off seeds and i have used about 20 of them in the past and evry 1 of them have bin female not 1 male.

and seeds from polinated females u can never tell till u have grown the seed for about 6 weeks and u see there is a tiny little ball apears wiff 2 white hairs at the nodes but males u could grow 4 eva and it never show a sign of being a female some people just dont like to chop it cos they are determint its gonna be a female i can tell within 2 weeks or so

i very rarly use seeds just take cuttings from my mothers unles i want another strain



this is no bull shit i also herd it a few years back

[toastybiz]

There continues to be misconceptions about hermies and feminized pollen. To quote the article FatBob referenced:

"A lot of people think we have created hermaphrodites, but we take 100% female clones, and apply a safe chemical so the clones produce abundant male flowers. Then we take that pollen and fertilize other females with it. Seeds from this method will usually grow out female.

Hermie plants do not produce feminized pollen. Stressing individual bud sites on a pure female plant can induce those budsites to grow physically male buds, which in a sense makes it a hermaphrodite but not really. These female buds that are forced to grow outwardly as male are the ones that produce feminized pollen. It is very tricky to do on purpose, the stressing involves either light exposure during the dark cycle and/or application of a special hormone. TopPot, I would guess that either you didn't have a true hermie but had accidentally stressed your girl into this condition from a light leak or else you got VERY lucky.

Feminized seeds come from pollinating females with feminized pollen, which produces seeds that are only genetically female. You cannot identify females from males among regular seeds, at least not without a genetics lab and probably destroying the seed in the process.

[aaronbites]

wow grass city just keeps amazin me with its knowledge


thanks thats a very interesting article

[HUH]

i was asking myself this same question today....that's an interesting article. good one fatbob



stay blazed

[firehose]

neatish

[toastybiz]

Firehose, +rep to you. Not for making a great comment but for actually using the search button! Much better that you had a question, searched, and found the answer then asking a question that's been answered before. This Q has been answered many more times since 2007 BTW...